🏖 This is the summer version of STRTGY Notes, the popular 1,000-word newsletters that more than 1,500 professionals and entrepreneurs read to understand how to unlock the innovative potential of the organizations they work with every day and create the next competitive advantage.
Find the complete archive, as always, at the bottom of each note.
Design
Machine Learning and Design
It is a collection of over 70 articles, books and videos on how Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are changing the way we do design. There are tools and experiments to try!
Matching Fonts with Maching Learning
It is the most classic of design problems, I personally could spend days creating combinations of which only I recognize the differences between one and the other.
The Fontjoy team mapped all Google Fonts into 3 dimensions, weight, slant and type (serif, non-serif), and coded a set of rules just as a human designer would relate the various families taking into account the relationship between the chosen fonts, not just random versions…
Infinite version of the same interface
What if we replaced UX/UI designers with a… bot? This experiment can generate endless variations of the same interface without getting bored–impressive.
Technology
Best blogs for engineers
F-Tech (Farfetch)
Overflow (Buffer)
Airbnb Engineering & Data Science
It is crazy the quality and quantity of information that the best teams in the world share in these blogs. I’ve selected just a few for you but I suggest you Google “[CompanyName] Engineering Blogs” to find the others.
Often there are links to their Githubs.
Business
How fashion is avoiding falling into the discount trap
Several strategies for not thinning margins even more, not devaluing the brand, and making unsold lockdown stock profitable.
Spoiler: some top brands like Alexander Wang, Ganni, Proenza Schouler will have “archive” sales. In 2016 in LIFT-D I co-founded Archive Store, an e-commerce that wanted to do just that… too bad it didn’t work out 🙂
Are you asking enough of your designers?
McKinsey surveyed 200 design leaders and 100 executives to find out what we already knew: 90 percent of companies are not reaching their potential. But that is not the gist of the article, which is instead a beautiful long-reading on the relationship between Design and Business.
[Video] The great ones who do not behave well
Video summary of what the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google said to Congress. The question asked of Bezos is emblematic…
